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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

Tanith Lee

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Tanith Lee
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: September 19
Died: 2015
Died: May 24
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Esther Garber
Judas Garbah
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Scribes
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Storytellers
Expressive
Storyteller
Priests
Arts
Ancient
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It was so useful to lie with the truth.
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How massively the mountains stand, while low to the ground the sand blows. The sand blows on and on. And then there are no mountains, none at all, the sand has kissed and whispered them away. And still, the sand blows on.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water.
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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
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People are always the start for meanimals. When I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings,immortals, the deadthese are all people to me.
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Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
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He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.
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The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?
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It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.
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I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.
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I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.
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The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.
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I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
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No one is ever ordinary.
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